Film, Media and Performance Studies
In this interdisciplinary field, MLC faculty members study film, media, and the performing arts from a variety of critical, theoretical, and historical perspectives, within specific cultural contexts and in relation to transnational practices. Areas of interest include but are not limited to narrative theory and aesthetics; artistic experimentation and technological innovation; consumer culture and commercial entertainment forms; sexuality and gender; constructions of ethnic, racial, and national identities; global media production and circulation.
Koji Arizumi
Instructor of Japanese; Director, Critical Languages Center; Undergraduate Advisor, Chinese, Japanese, and Critical LanguagesEarly modern European culture; translation studies; history of Italian theatre and performance; the relationship between fact and fiction
Fabio Battista
Assistant Professor of Italian
Literature and Culture, film, visual Arts, memory and trauma, Spanish Civil War, women writers, cultural studies, Transatlantic studies, and gender studies
Ana Corbalán
Professor of Spanish
Eighteenth and early nineteenth-century literature, intellectual history, philosophy
Matthew Feminella
Associate Professor of German, German Program Co-Director, Graduate Advisor, Fulbright Program Advisor, IGSEP and Study Abroad Advisor
Medieval and early modern literature and theater; gender and women’s writing; literary representations of military-historical events; spectacle and performance; print and manuscript history; prophecy and eschatology; rhetoric; intersections of Italian, Spanish, and French cultural production 
Jessica Goethals
Associate Professor of Italian
Yunuen Gómez-Ocampo
Instructor of Spanish
Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean Studies, migration and Border Studies, gender studies, women writers, testimonial genres, translation studies, literary publishing
Gender studies, women writers, Early Modernity, social justice, hegemony and power, queer theory
Xabier Granja
Associate Professor of Spanish, Spanish Undergraduate Director
Barbara Gray
Instructor of Spanish20th Century Italian history and literature, political history, memory studies, translation and translation theory, representations of Italian language and history in international media
Annemarie Lisko
Instructor of Italian
Ancient Greek and Latin poetics, animal studies and posthumanism, mythology and folklore, Hellenistic and Roman epic and didactic, Classical reception
Colin MacCormack
Instructor of Classics
Latin American literature (20th/21st centuries), film studies (documentary focus), ecocriticism, environmental humanities, discard studies, biopolitics, neoliberalism, urban studies, critical animal studies, posthumanism
Micah McKay
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Modern and contemporary Italian literature, culture, philosophy, and history, literary criticism, aesthetics, phenomenology, and gender and trauma studies
Alessandra Montalbano
Associate Professor of Italian
17th-Century Literature & Thought: Descartes, French classical literature and scientific revolution, Molière
Jean Luc Robin
Associate Professor of French, Director of French Undergraduate Studies
US Latina/o, Caribbean, and Mexican literatures and cultures; Hispanic autobiography and narratives of the self; literary theory, and transatlantic studies 
Ignacio F. Rodeño
Professor of Spanish
Italian cinema in a transnational context, film history and theory, screenwriting practices, international co-productions, collaborative authorship, contemporary Italian literature, postcolonial studies, mixed- and intermedia
Claudia Romanelli
Associate Professor of Italian, Italian Program Director, Italian Undergraduate Advisor
April Stevens
Assistant Professor of French; Faculty Advisor, Cercle Français; French Language Program Director